Photographer Joel Sternfeld gave a lecture on Wednesday night titled What the High Line Meant and Means to Me. Currently there is still a half-mile section of the structure that has not been turned into a public park, because ownership of the property is still in limbo. The organization Friends of the High Line have [...]
Category Archives: Books
Guido Guidi: Autobiographical Italy
August 19, 2011 – 8:15 pm
Loosestrife Editions recently published A New Map of Italy: The Photographs of Guido Guidi, a collection of the Italian photographer’s work that includes the images above and below. The publisher states, “Working in marginal and decayed spaces with a (8″x10″) camera, Guidi creates dense sequences intended as meditations on the meaning of landscape, photography, and [...]
Performa 09 Book Launch
August 4, 2011 – 9:48 am
Curator and Performa director RoseLee Goldberg is launching her book, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, which is a definitive account of the performance biennial. The book includes creative documentation by the 150 artists who participated – among them Guy Ben-Ner, Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Arto Lindsay, Wangechi Mutu, Christian Tomaszewski, Yeondoo Jung, Keren Cytter, [...]
From the Silence of Duchamp to the Noise of Boys
June 13, 2011 – 6:06 pm
New York-based artist and writer Michael David Quattlebaum, Jr. will be launching his first book of poetry this Friday at the OHWOW Book Club, followed by a series of readings by the artist, as well as Jack Walls and Stefon Bondell. Quattlebaum, who founded the performance collective No Fear and performs regularly under the alias Mykki [...]
Visual Diaries/Girls
May 6, 2011 – 5:26 pm
Visual Diaries/Girls is a group exhibition that opens tonight at Stephanie Bender Gallery in Munich. Curated by Florencia Serrot, it features the work of eleven women photographers, each from a different country (myself included). The show looks to document and investigate a new breed of female photographers whose work is autobiographical in nature and serves [...]
David Maisel
April 12, 2011 – 3:22 pm
From 1987 to 2007, photographer David Maisel focused his artistic energies on what he eventually titled The Mining Project, a series of aerial photographs of open pit mines. In response to the environmental destruction promoted by the mining process and lax environmental regulation, Maisel created a group of images that beautifully and poignantly documents what [...]
Far Too Close
March 16, 2011 – 7:37 am
I have been a quiet admirer of Martina Hoogland Ivanow’s photography since I came across her portraits of Lou Doillon lounging seductively in a turn-of-the-century Parisian fencing club. So when news arrived that Steidl was finally printing Martina’s long-awaited monograph Far Too Close, it seemed it was time to find her in Berlin or Stockholm [...]
